Around and About on Valentine's Day

Luna is back and looking for poems!

This from Ray Gonzalez:

On the tenth anniverary of the magazine, I am proud and pleased to say that Luna is back in business and will continue to publish in a smaller format. Our committment to fine poetry and translations is stronger than ever because, in these times of political darkness and a literary atmosphere where too many poets are constantly jockeying for position, it is good to find honest people who are committed to working on a fine publication. It comes down to being professional editors, to loving poetry, and for making the efforts to find the best possible work out there. This means not fitting into any one "school of poetry" or promoting one group over another. I look forward to the further development of this site and to future issues of Luna that will truly represent our efforts to bring you a wide panorama of fine poets, young and old and poems that transcend boundaries to allow the language to speak for itself.

http://lunapoetry.blogspot.com/

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Poetry Daily has been around for ten years now.

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Over at poets.org they’re talking about a book that is said to be “a beautiful, accessible, and wide-ranging collection of poetry and prose.” Why do I keep coming across the word “accessible” these days in advertisements for books of poetry? What is this code for? Is this really the word the poetry-buying public is looking for? It’s by turns irritating and depressing, that “accessible” is the new Mother Nature taking over.

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at

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music-gigs/features/article2239344.ece

there's an interesting article about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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2007 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Confirmed Artists:

The Police
Tool
Widespread Panic
The White Stripes
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
Wilco
The Flaming Lips
Manu Chao
The String Cheese Incident
Franz Ferdinand
Bob Weir & Ratdog
Damien Rice
Ween
Gov't Mule
Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
The Decemberists
Kings of Leon
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Wolfmother
Regina Spektor
Galactic
The Black Keys
DJ Shadow
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Spoon
Keller Williams
Sasha & John Digweed
STS9
Old Crow Medicine Show
The Hold Steady
North Mississippi Allstars
Fountains of Wayne
Hot Tuna
Feist
Hot Chip
Lily Allen
John Butler Trio
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Aesop Rock
The Richard Thompson Band
Dierks Bentley
Xavier Rudd
Gogol Bordelo
Junior Brown
Tortoise
T-Bone Burnett
Mavis Staples
Clutch
Cold War Kids
Dr. Dog
Paolo Nutini
Brazilian Girls
RX Bandits
The Nightwatchman(Tom Morello-RATM/Audioslave)
The Slip
Girl Talk
Railroad Earth
Martha Wainwright
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Annuals
Tea Leaf Green
Sam Roberts Band
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Charlie Louvin
Sonya Kitchell
Mute Math
Apollo Sunshine
Uncle Earl
James Blood Ulmer
The National
The Little Ones
Ryan Shaw

Comedians:
Lewis Black & Friends
Dave Attell
David Cross

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Bookshelf:

DAZE. Matthew Cooperman
The Wife of the Left Hand. Nancy Kuhl

Soundtrack:

Love. The Beatles